HP will not license WebOS to rival smartphone and tablet vendors, the head of the company's PCs and gadgets division has said.
Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference yesterday, Todd Bradley, executive VP of HP’s Personal Systems Group, emphatically said the company will not make the operating system, acquired when HP …

Palm's mistake...

It wasn't the OS licensing, it was splitting off PalmSource and then have PalmSource to sit on the OS instead fo updating it. Then some genius decided to switch the Palm handsets to WinMo ... and the Palm devices became "just another WinMo device". webOS came out too late to save 'em.

Agree with PushF12

Well, HP is still relevant but Palm is dead as a dodo. WebOS is dead too. Who in their right mind is going to target WebOS platform when Android is the rising star. The main players will be iOS, Android and WP7. Blackberry is increasing becoming less relevant.